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"There's nothing there." Those words were nearly a death sentence for young Declan. Without detectable mana, there could be no studying at the sky-piercing Pinnacle Towers, no great monster hunts, and no following in his legendary father's footsteps. He would be a cripple. But when a terrible accident forces him to flee, Declan learns the true nature of his mana. Just because it doesn't resonate at any known frequency doesn't mean it isn't magic. Just because it can't be seen doesn't mean it isn't there — and Declan is beginning to discover just how dangerous the Nothing can be.

They called him trash — until he put the Dao under the microscope. When demons slaughter his new family, computer scientist Johan — now reborn as Yu Han — survives by pure wit. He gains access to the mysterious system that all cultivators use to defy the heavens. But it won't be enough. Betrayed and stripped of everything, his only path forward is joining a prestigious immortal sect. Before he can even step inside, he slaps the faces of two powerful young masters. Yu Han should have no path forward — but in his past life he was a corporate warfare consultant who treated business rivals like failed hypotheses to be mercilessly eliminated. Trash talent? He'll prototype his own. Watch this blood-thirsty fatty sprint toward immortality, bringing algorithms to sword fights and treating cultivation like a hostile takeover.

Han is a 30-year-old gamer who has finally beaten World: Mountain, Sea and Sky — a brutally difficult soulslike RPG that kills your character on every game over. He has written guides, found every secret dungeon, and tried every trick in the book. But he has never started the game as a Slave. At least, not while inside the game.

Dex is just your average IT professional — until a glowing gem opens a portal in his apartment and starts counting down to his death. An autistic quality assurance engineer might not be anyone's first choice for a hero, but he has a certain set of skills that catches the attention of the Daemon System as it implements a secret beta-test on Earth. The Essence Wavefront is imminent. Humanity will need the structure of the System to have any chance against the countless invaders coming to take that power. By reporting bugs while fighting for his life in pocket dimensions full of deathtraps and monsters, Dex will grow more powerful than he can imagine — all while uncovering the truths of the upcoming apocalypse.

A dark-type specialist Pokemon self-insert fic. As a Poochyena in Vinewood Town, survival means building bonds and forging friendships — though no one would recommend doing that with a Dark type. After all, they're nearly as bad as Ghosts.

Ethan died and was reborn into a world of Classes, Skills, and Mana. Reincarnated as Ember Blackstone, a descendant of a prestigious family of knights, he believed he had won the lottery. But the high society of ascendants can be cutthroat, and with his lacklustre talent he should have been left to fade into quiet obscurity. Against all expectations, his skills and rank advance faster than anyone. Ember dreams of magic and a fulfilling life with his loving family — but when tragedy strikes, he has to fight to make ends meet. To keep his dream alive and protect those he loves, Ember must rise beyond the limit and become more mana than a man.

Four hundred years after demon hordes were unleashed on the world of Elaria, humanity survives in a single valley — the Valley of Auld, its last bastion. Elian is markless, unable to activate skills, one of the poorest workers in the salt mines outside the city walls. The wagon that carries the miners is locked not to keep them in, but to keep the demons out. When the wagon is attacked and every marked guard is slain, Elian discovers he is not markless at all — he is full-marked, with access to all four classes: Infuser, Invoker, Necromancer, and Summoner. Summoners brought the demon hordes in the first place, and their bloodline has been purged. If anyone learns what Elian truly is, he will be killed on sight the moment he reaches the city.

What happens when you find yourself immersed in a fantasy world you have never imagined, and you don't know the rules? How much can one bathrobe and a spoon change the fate of the world? Is there enough ramen to ever sate a gamer's hunger?

Paralyzed in a workplace accident, Lox's life is looking bleak — he cannot even use the hardware that would let him play the full-immersion games everyone else enjoys. Then a company called New Universal Frontiers makes him an offer: access to their technology despite his injuries, in exchange for one condition — he can never leave the game. Once inside, Lox quickly realizes this is far more than a game. Given a class everyone considers useless due to its inherent dangers, he endures a long and painful series of trials as he masters his magical abilities. As he explores the depths of the game's magic system, he discovers there is far more going on than anyone ever expected.

On Ludus, life is often cheap. With nowhere to go after losing her family, Nora joined an old friend in a street gang and found an unlikely home there. But tragedy is about to befall her — grudges from the distant past and shadowy organizations are about to take away everything she holds dear, possibly even her life. Survival may require escaping her old life and embarking on a desperate journey. Along the way, she might stumble into both an incredible opportunity and an incredible burden. Her enemies should be warned: Nora was no pushover before discovering her powers.

The System integrated Earth into a multiverse of gods, monsters, and dungeons. Half of humanity answered the call. Some return stronger. Others never return. Thirteen years ago, Luke's mother entered the Tutorial and vanished. Now Luke faces the same trial — not for glory, but for answers. What should be a beginner's test becomes a death sentence when he falls into a forgotten dungeon floor where monsters are scarce, supplies are limited, and the only way out is a temple hanging over an abyss, guarded by a sleeping demon. Every puzzle kills. Every step risks his life. No buffs, no tricks — just a knife and the raw will to survive. When the light fades and the body breaks, Luke has only one choice: embrace the darkness and be reborn.

Do not kill. That's the first rule of being a superhero — and it's the first one she broke. Vivian gained a superpower that allows her to telekinetically apply ten pounds of force. Weak. Useless, some said, but she's determined to make it work. On her first night out, she found out how wrong everyone was as she reduced a man's brain to mush. Now, pitted against villains, shady corporations, college debt, and the government's brutal hero program, she has to find a way to become the hero she has always wished she could be — a hero who could have saved her.

Kay's life takes an unexpected turn when he is transported to a mysterious world brimming with unfamiliar Skills, Classes, and a System. There he discovers a unique Class never seen before — a powerful new form of blood magic that allows him to shape and manipulate the life force coursing through his veins. But the powers that be view Kay as a threat and are more than happy to eliminate him to maintain the status quo. Outnumbered and underpowered, he'll need to level up his Skills, harness his unique Class, and decipher the ever-shifting schemes of his enemies — all while keeping his true potential under wraps.

Punished for his toxic online behavior, Chad faces a thirty-day sentence of full-immersion therapy designed to improve his anger issues. For his endless trolling, he's forced to play as a forest troll — the most hated race in Isle of Mythos — so that he can finally experience what it's like to be on the other side. To make matters worse, the heroes sent to rid the world of evil aren't heroes at all: they're violent felons on their own twisted paths to redemption. Playing as a monster in a world where it ain't easy being green, what could possibly go wrong?

On the first day, a mist descended from the heavens blanketing the earth. On the second day, a cryptic message — "Infusion commencing" — appeared in the corner of everyone's eyes. By the fifth day, the warping began. Animals and people started transforming into terrible monsters that prey on the living. Within months, human civilization had crumbled. Unable to fight the seemingly indestructible beasts, survivors cowered in reinforced shelters — until a few brave souls discovered how to use the Tec to level up. Together they represent humanity's last best hope. But their journey will require them to adapt to alien technology, operate strange spaceships, and befriend an extra-terrestrial merchant with an inferiority complex.

A truck driver in his mid-thirties is stranded 700 miles from home when the System arrives and ends the world as he knows it. With no truck, no supplies, and only his loyal dog for company, he has to cross a monster-infested country to reach his family. The System mutates plants and animals and spawns dungeons. Getting home means surviving all of it.

In Unity territory, power and public perception go hand-in-hand, empowering an elite class of cultivators. For most, becoming a cultivator is impossible. On his 18th birthday, Shane receives a cryptic message from his absentee father that puts everything he's known into question — he has the bloodline of the Wishmaster, the most powerful criminal in the universe, and the ability to grant people's wishes. The more Shane experiments with his wish-granting ability, the more incredible it seems. By granting wishes, he can gain skills, items, and stat points, bypassing the slow road of conventional cultivation. The Wishmaster has many descendants, so the competition to succeed him is steep. Until Shane is strong enough, staying hidden is imperative. His plan: progress through the ranks of heroes while concealing the true source of his powers.

Emma was slinging hotdogs at Comic-Con when the whole crowd got Portalled to another Realm — a world where the laws of physics don't apply and even the grass is trying to kill her. She better make friends fast, because out here it's thrive or die. No amount of videogames prepared her for a world where she can actually gain Skills and level up, or for a series of trials that seem designed to kill her rather than teach her to survive. What could possibly be the real goal of the mysterious predecessors who built them?

Max Stone's laid-back life ends when a foolhardy rescue attempt earns him a trip to the afterlife. Instead of heaven or hell, his soul becomes a bargaining chip in a game between gods. He wins a second chance and chooses to keep his memories, awakening reincarnated in the frail teenage body of a recently deceased boy on Eedan — a world of chi cultivation, magic, and monsters. Starting weaker than the lowest-ranked cultivator and immediately drawing the ire of arrogant nobles, Max must leverage his Earth-born wits and a unique blessing to survive, master chi, and claw his way up in a world where power is everything.

An old man dies in one world and a young boy wakes up in a galaxy far, far away. A Star Wars fanfiction with cultivation fantasy influences.